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Ford Motor Co. has got car-sharing programs already underway in the U.S., Germany and India. Now, it is adding London to the mix.

This week, the Dearborn, Mich. auto maker is launching a new pilot in the United Kingdom that will let drivers pay-per-minute to take short, one-way trips in its cars with guaranteed parking at the destination.

The new service, called GoDrive, is being rolled out on a limited basis in London with 50 cars and 20 locations as part of a larger set of so-called “mobility” experiments at Ford, which aim to test-drive new ways of getting around, particularly in congested cities with limited parking. Read More »

London is cementing its position as the go-to listing venue for companies that commercialize academic research, after building up a world-leading position in that emerging sector.

Early Tuesday morning, U.K. time, Boston-based PureTech Health became the latest company to announce plans to float in London. It hopes to raise $160 million from the listing on the London Stock Exchange’s main market. Read More »

Starting later this month, IKEA is opening a pop-up cafe in London’s trendy Shoreditch area, serving “traditional Swedish breakfasts and offering siestas in a range of their most comfortable beds,” the company said. Read More »

Paris-based Dreamjet SAS wants to start all-business-class flights between Paris and New York, unwittingly finding itself held up as a test case for competition policy in one of the world’s busiest air-travel markets.

The main U.S. pilot union, Air Line Pilots Association International, or ALPA, on Friday said it backed Dreamjet’s effort to win approval from U.S. regulators. Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, which planned to launch flights from London and Scandinavia in April via a new Ireland-based subsidiary, earlier this week offered its own backing for Dreamjet. More on this after the jump… Read More »

LONDON–Millard “Mickey” Drexler is more worried about the candy than the store.

“They’re gonna put their hands in there?” he asks of the glass jars and bowls of sugared treats being filled ahead of the opening of J.Crew Group Inc.’s first international flagship store. “Scoops, there’ll be scoops,” one of his multitude staff reassures him.

Mr. Drexler, chief executive of the closely held U.S. clothing chain, is in London to bring his particular brand of fervor and attention to detail to a 17,000-square-foot store on trendy Regent Street. J.Crew has a smaller men’s store in London that opened in October and a separate women’s store also opening Friday, but the store opening Friday is its first full-scale location outside North America. The company has a total of 442 stores in the U.S. and Canada, including 65 under its Madewell brand and 121 factory outlets.

London’s Kensington district, home to the $23 million American Airlines house.

Back in December 2011, reporters searching through the American Airlines bankruptcy filing found one pretty delicious detail: the struggling carrier ows a luxury home, for the use of its executives, on one of London’s wealthiest streets.